We're kicking off a new week with our Newsroom is full swing and Build 2014 well and truly behind us. That said, there's still some news and app updates to cover for you all to remain up-to-date with platform business. We'll catch a few apps and games in today's roundup to kick off the week.

Surfy 3.8

Surfy is a pretty decent alternative web browser to Internet Explorer on Windows Phone. The app was previously re-released late last year, but today we're looking at a new release with some highly requested functionality.

Here's what's new in version 3.8:

Share link via NFC

Save Login credentials

Find on Page

Voice support for Spanish, Portuguese and Italian

Both the free and the paid versions of Surfy have been updated. Check them out on the Windows Phone Store using the links and QR codes below:

Star Warfare: Alien Invasion 2.7.2.3

This popular fast-paced alien shoot ‘em up game for your Windows Phone 8 device, Star Warfare: Alien Invasion, calls upon players to play the role of a soldier pitted against wave after wave of alien invaders.

The title has been bumped to 2.7.2.3, which includes the following:

Crash bug on 512M devices fixed

Arena bug positions fixed

It's a nice update and a game we recommend you try out should you be a fan of said games.

Did u updated the maps ? Where you have saved maps of your state/country ? If in sd card, please move to the phone storage also reinstall here maps and drive. Also do soft reset by holding volume down+switch button for 10 to 15 seconds and then release it.

I wish they would fix the HERE Maps bug where it just hangs most of the time when trying to get directions. It got introduced in an update months and months ago and has made the app almost unusable for me ever since :-(. Had to install an app to put the bing maps icon back onto my Lumia 820 instead so that I had a map that could actually give me directions again!

And now that those 2 Wi-Fi proxies are closed it makes it harder to download non Nokia apps like Samsung's Video Trimmer which is better than Nokia's and actually gets regular updates, unlike Nokia's which doesn't. Nokia' hasn't been updated in 6 months, Samsung's has had 3 updates this year already following one in December...

Don't get me started. Ever article I read on this site has misspelled words that make understand the intended point quite difficult and very annoying to decipher. I don't understand why it appears so difficult for the news writers to write their stories in Word for Office. The damned thing will do the spell checking and syntax corrections for you.